Flange-lubricator.



D. REID.

FLANGE LUBRIOATOR. APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, 1913.

1,088,928, Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

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COLUMBIA PLANouuAvn to A llllNGTON u c DAVID REID, OF GLOBE, ARIZONA.

FLANGE-LUBRIGATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 1, 1913.

Patented Mar. 3, 1.9114.

Serial No. 758,201.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID Rim), a citizen of the United States, residing at Globe, in the county of Gila and State of Arizona, have invented certain new and useful 1mprovements in Flange-Lubricators, of which the following is a specification, reference be ing had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to flange lubricators and has for its object the production of a device which always keeps the lubricator in engagement with the flange of the wheel.

Another object of this invention is the production of an. efficient means for adjusting the lubricator relative to a wheel.

A still further object of this invention is the production of a supporting means for the lubricator which is attached directly to the driving box of a locomotive.

With these and other objects in view, this invention consists of certain novel constructions, arrangements and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an edge view of a wheel showing the driving box section with the improved device mounted thereon. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a wheel showing the relative position of the lubricator to the wheel. Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation of a lubricator and the supporting means.

Referring to the parts by reference numerals, this device consists of a supporting bar 10 which is secured to the driving box of a locomotive as indicated at 11 by securing means 12. Openings are formed in the upper end of this bar 10 to receive securing means 13 for the supporting bracket 14 which has a downwardly directed foot 15 with openings registering with the openings formed in the bar 10 through which pass the securing means 13.' Formed on the opposite end of the supporting bracket 14 from the downwardly directed foot 15 are rolled ends. A lubricator supporting member 16 is also provided with rolled ends at its inner end, which, together with the rolled ends of the supporting bracket 14, together With a pintle, form hinge of the ordinary type. An adjusting bracket 17 is secured to the under face of the supporting bracket 14 by a rearwardly projecting foot 18 which has an openingformed therein through which a securing bolt 19 passes to secure the adjusting bracket 17 to the supporting bracket let. Formed in the opposite end of the adj ustin bracket 17 is a threaded opening into whic 1 an adjusting screw 20 threaded, which is adapted to rest upon the under face of the lubricator supporting member 16, thereby holding the lubricator supporting member in the desired position.

A lubricator is shown comprising a casing 21, cut-otf valve 22, and a nozzle 23 which is provided with a shoulder 2%. An opening is formed in the lubricator supporting member 16 through which the nozzle 23 passes and the nozzle supported by means of the member 16 abutting against the shoulder 24 thereby holding the nozzle in a desired position.

It will be seen fro-m the foregoing description that a flange lubricator has been provided which is mounted directly onthe driving box of a locomotive, therefore doing away with any means of accidentally removingthe lubricator from the flange as is now done in the present method of mounting the lubricator supporting means on the frame of the locomotive thereby taking the lubricator from the flange of the wheel as the frame of the locomotive changes relative to the wheel. In this device the lubricator is held at all times in engagement with the flange of the wheel so as to have the oil at all times on the wheel because the device is mounted on the driving box and the driving box is always in the same relative position to the wheel. If there should be any lateral motion of the wheel the lubricator can easily adjust itself to the position taken by the wheel by means of the hinge and in order to reduce as much as possible the wear on the nozzle the adjusting screw is provided as shown in the drawings, although a spring or other means could be readily substituted.

It is obvious that many changes may be made in the form and construction of this invention without departing from the material parts thereof. It is, therefore, not wished to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is wished to include all such as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

1. In a device of the class described comprising a supporting bar, a bracket carried by said supporting bar, a lubricator, a lubricator supporting member hingedly secured to said supporting bracket, an adjusting bracket carried by said supporting bracket, means carried by said adjusting bracket whereby said lubricator supporting member may be adjusted relative to said adjusting bracket.

2. In a device of the class described comprising a supporting bar, a supporting bracket provided with a downwardly projecting foot at one end carried by said supporting bar, a lubricator, a lubricator sup porting member hingedly secured to said supporting bracket, an adjusting bracket provided with a rearwardly extending foot secured to the under face of said supporting bracket, said adjusting bracket provided with a threaded opening, an adjusting screw DAVID REID.

Witnesses PETER C. LITTLE, CHARLES L. RAWLINS.

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